Well, my 15,000 miles of right thru flights returning from the wonderful DUS Altbier/Goosenfest Doozie on the weekend have come badly unstuck, as UA have stranded me in SFO for 24 hours as the ORD-SFO connection arrived an hour after the one daily SYD flight had gone.

Flew back from DUSSELDORF to ORD with AnnaS and Miletex all up front in Business Class on United. WHAT a flight!!! We each received an elaborate UA card signed with personal messages by all staff from the Captain down, and all copped a wrapped bottle of French booze, and had them smuggle us Dom Perignon from First thru the flight as well. (I suspect Miletex and I drank both flights Transatlantic more value in Dom than our coach tickets cost us!) The staff all sang "Happy Birthday" to AnnaS mid flight as well, and gave her a bunch of flowers. Wonderful bunch of FA's and I for one have sent off a personal letter of thanks to UA brass, with names of staff, about the amazing service offered both ways to DUS by UA. Nice to read comments above from cesgog and auh20 who seemed to receive the same superb in-flight service from those crew on the first flight, that we invited to dinner

Anyway, being a new 1K on United makes a huge difference. The delay getting to SFO was caused by ATC, clearly not a United problem. They really needed offer no accomodation, but sprung for two nights at the new Radisson here, with cab and meal vouchers etc. The walk up rate is $235 a night as SFO is heavily oversold right now.

So, anyone in SFO who is about during today Tuesday, and wishes to catch up somewhere, please give me a call direct at the hotel. My flight to SYD does not leave til 11.30pm Tues 14th, so even dinner will fit in fine. Radisson Airport @ Sierra Point 415 467 4400, room 732, Glen Stephens.

United have said they will likely offer me a sleeper seat in First on the 14 hour flight SYD-SFO (off a coach ticket!) due to the hassle, so that will be nice if it comes off.

bagold .. what a small world that you ended up sitting next to Miletex on his ORD-Dallas flight. We both changed our original onward flights from the RCC, so you almost missed the chance it seems. Hope he managed to schmooze some Dom for you on THAT flight ... sitting next to Richard on long flights is a big travelling plus, I am here to tell you!

MIZU ... great photos! You'll need to come up some captions with names, so we can all print out a set! That will be a neat site when they are all up. Thanks for your help and Bernies in being the local guides there, and to you for finding us the cyber cafe.

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~ Glen ~

[This message has been edited by ozstamps (edited 11-14-2000).]